To mitigate damage and promote healing, surgery should have been performed immediately after the injury occurred.
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Upon examination using MSUS, we discovered that he had a full muscle thickness tear that had been overlooked by his previous provider. When he came to our clinic, the muscle was not healing, and the patients’ muscle tissue had already begun to atrophy. In this instance, an athlete was originally diagnosed with minor quadriceps muscle strain and was treated for four weeks, with unsatisfactory results.
The researchers concluded that progressive cartilage damage occurred to areas surrounding the knee that were not impacted by the initial ACL injury. Cartilage loss to the knee cap itself was 30 times greater than baseline. The MRIs revealed that ACL tears had affected the surrounding cartilage, which had deteriorated over time, with cartilage loss in the lower femur up to 50 times greater than baseline. Fourteen of the patients had rehabbed their knee without surgery, and 28 had undergone reconstructive surgery. ran MRIs for 11 years on 40 patients, with a total of 42 earlier ACL ruptures. The research team concluded that patients who had ACL surgery in their youth were more likely to need additional surgery later on. Six years later, 9 percent had required at least one additional surgery on the same knee, and 10 percent needed surgery on the other knee, Of those, 6.4 percent were for ACL injury. (2013) evaluated 1,000 people, with a median age of 23 at the time of injury, for six years post-ACL reconstruction. New research about the long-term consequences of knee injury is shedding light on the extent of the initial damage done to the tissues surrounding the knee, and how immediate treatment affects long-term outcomes.